Quotes about Redemption

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.

We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.

They mistakenly assume that their good works can save them. Just make sure that you are born again. Because if you are not, your good works are worthless.

The Gospel is to aggrandize Christ and the mercy of God.

Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in Christ saves.

We aren't condemning good works. People first have to be made ready to do good works by being born anew. Only

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Dominus et magister n? Jesus Chrs? dicendo, Penitentiam agite etc, omn? vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit. (Our Lord and teacher, Jesus Christ, in saying, "repent," wanted the entire life life of a believer to be repentance.)

If He gave Himself into death for our sins, then undoubtedly He is not a tormentor. He is not One who will cast down the troubled, but One who will raise up the fallen and bring propitiation and consolation to the terrified.

If we fail to hold that the Person who was crucified was both God and man, we are eternally damned and lost. We must have a Savior who is more than a saint or an angel. If He were not superior to these, we would get no help from Him. But if He is God, then the treasure is so heavy that it not only outweighs and cancels sin and death but also gives eternal life. No mere human could acquire eternal life for us or overcome the devil and death.